TY - BOOK AU - Garcia,Paco TI - Independence is dead, long live independence. Between material constraints and symbolic issues: An analysis of the evolution of “independence” in French rap PY - 2022///. N1 - 91 N2 - This contribution intends to look at the current hegemony of “urban music” in the French phonographic industry by focusing on the notion of independence, mobilized by a heterogeneous group of actors in the social world of rap in France. Through the trajectory of Believe/Musicast, but also of self-identified “independent artists,” this paper aims at exploring the concomitant development of independent distribution and social-digital networks. These analyses will lead us to sketch out what could be a new layout for popular music, between the refocusing of the major record labels on distribution and the growing importance of intermediaries and pure players UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-les-enjeux-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication-2021-1-page-19?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -